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Better Dead Than Red
A Nasty Little War: The West’s Fight to Reverse the Russian Revolution
By Anna Reid
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Ten Years That Shook the World
Blood on the Snow: The Russian Revolution 1914–1924
By Robert Service
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The Poet & the Tyrant
Osip Mandelstam: A Biography
By Ralph Dutli (Translated from German by Ben Fowkes)
Tristia
By Osip Mandelstam (Translated from Russian by Thomas de Waal)
From the March 2023 Issue
That Teacheth My Hands to War
Ploughshares into Swords
By Vladislav Vančura (Translated from Czech by David Short)
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Warlord of Red Square
New books on the war in Ukraine
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Four Years That Shook the World
Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917–1921
By Antony Beevor
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From the June 2022 Issue
Love in a Cold City
Deceit
By Yuri Felsen (Translated from Russian by Bryan Karetnyk)
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From the February 2022 Issue
Editor-in-Chief of the USSR
Stalin’s Library: A Dictator and His Books
By Geoffrey Roberts
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From the November 2021 Issue
Prophet of Doom
Disenchanted Wanderer: The Apocalyptic Vision of Konstantin Leontiev
By Glenn Cronin
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From the August 2021 Issue
Disinterring Anton Chekhov
Old rumours & new finds
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From the May 2021 Issue
Eau de Hammer & Sickle
The Scent of Empires: Chanel No. 5 and Red Moscow
By Karl Schlögel (Translated from German by Jessica Spengler)
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From the March 2021 Issue
The Lesser Evil?
Journey into the Land of the Zeks and Back: A Memoir of the Gulag
By Julius Margolin (Translated from Russian by Stefani Hoffman)
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From the February 2021 Issue
The Eternal Husband
Dostoevsky in Love: An Intimate Life
By Alex Christofi
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From the December 2020 Issue
Pro-Sex, Anti-Stalin
Collected Poems
By Robert Conquest (Edited by Elizabeth Conquest)
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All the President’s Murderers
Putin’s People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took on the West
By Catherine Belton
Shadow State: Murder, Mayhem, and Russia’s Remaking of the West
By Luke Harding
Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin’s Russia
By Joshua Yaffa
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From the June 2020 Issue
Hitler’s More Willing Executioners
Our People: Discovering Lithuania’s Hidden Holocaust
By Rūta Vanagaitė & Efraim Zuroff
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From the May 2020 Issue
The Monks who Came in from the Cold
Spies and Scholars: Chinese Secrets and Imperial Russia’s Quest for World Power
By Gregory Afinogenov
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From the March 2020 Issue
Sorrows of Hungary
Katalin Street
By Magda Szabó (Translated from Hungarian by Len Rix)
Abigail
By Magda Szabó (Translated from Hungarian by Len Rix)
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From the December 2019 Issue
Pride, Prejudice & Pushkin
Think, Write, Speak: Uncollected Essays, Reviews, Interviews and Letters to the Editor
By Vladimir Nabokov (Edited by Brian Boyd & Anastasia Tolstoy)
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Madness & Misanthropy
Bellevue
By Ivana Dobrakovová (Translated by Julia & Peter Sherwood)
Big Love
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